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JFK (airport) illegally targeting Muslims, groups say [ACLU/CAIR Alert]
Newsday ^ | August 24, 2006 | BRYAN VIRASAMI

Posted on 08/23/2006 6:15:24 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport by Homeland Security officers, including hundreds who were singled out for detention on the day of the recent London terrror arrests, civil liberties groups said Wednesday.

The groups highlighted the case of a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai last week. The family, a mother and her 20-year-old twin daughters from Montclair, NJ, said they were plucked from the baggage area, held six hours without food or water by Customs and Border Protection agents and questioned about their views of Iraq.

Nahgam Alyaqoubi and her daughters, Arwa and Sumia Ibrahim, naturalized American citizens, said 200 other passengers of Arab, Muslim or South Asian backgrounds were detained on Aug. 15 in a roped off area, days after the London bomb suspects were arrested.

The family joined officials from the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups at a news conference in Council on American-Islamic Relations office in in Manhattan to condemn what they say was an increase in racial profiling. They also criticized Rep. Peter King for endorsing profiling.

Arwa Ibrahim, who along with her sister, is enrolled at Rutgers University, said they were born in Iraq and moved to the United States at age 5. She said the experience was disturbing because they were forced to sit on the floor without food or water and were treated rudely when they asked questions of the officers.

"It was a really humiliating experience -- humiliating because we were treated like animals," she said. "We were treated really horribly by the officers that were there, we were yelled at, we were told to get back, threathened with arrest and threathened to have to stay longer if we complained."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclu; airlinesecurity; cair; islam; jfkairport; muslim; terrorism; tsa
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

You've got the same problem, evidently :)


81 posted on 08/23/2006 7:22:33 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: mathurine
I'm not even buying that drinks and snacks weren't available. These girls have acclimated as Americans really well haven't they?
82 posted on 08/23/2006 7:25:05 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: sinkspur
The women in the article are American citizens... which in and of itself does not guarantee that these women are in any way loyal to the United States, and there's no reason for anyone to act on that assumption. Reality and experience trump PC dogma.
83 posted on 08/23/2006 7:28:22 PM PDT by ArmyTeach
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To: sinkspur
"If it took six hours to process these people, the "officials" weren't trained."

Are you speaking from personal experience now?
84 posted on 08/23/2006 7:30:59 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: ArmyTeach
The women in the article are American citizens... which in and of itself does not guarantee that these women are in any way loyal to the United States, and there's no reason for anyone to act on that assumption. Reality and experience trump PC dogma.

Don't complain if this happens to you.

85 posted on 08/23/2006 7:31:35 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: sinkspur
Incidents like this is why there won't be any profiling.

This article has told ONE side of the situation I would like to hear the other side. We are at war , even if some in the media do not understand the fact.

86 posted on 08/23/2006 7:42:30 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: sinkspur
Don't complain if this happens to you.

Heck, I spent 6 hours sitting in a plane on the tarmac last June. We were offered "A" small drink and "A" bag of pretzels. And I had paid for this service!

If chubby, middle aged women with brown hair and glasses were blowing up airplanes, it wouldn't bother me a bit to be stopped.

87 posted on 08/23/2006 7:43:03 PM PDT by Dianna
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To: MelonFarmerJ

German security - dong the profiling to save lives that the TSA won't do.


88 posted on 08/23/2006 7:47:01 PM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

"The family, a mother and her 20-year-old twin daughters from Montclair, NJ, said they were plucked from the baggage area, held six hours without food or water by Customs and Border Protection agents..."

I'd pluck them from the airplane's baggage area, too. Next time they should buy seats on the plane, located in the upper fuselage.


89 posted on 08/23/2006 8:09:16 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Jennifer Granholm's campaign slogan: Six more years of Uncle Joe or Uncle Ho - your choice.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

BFD! Boo hoo!


90 posted on 08/23/2006 8:15:38 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sinkspur

If I were a blond, blue eyed Anglo woman in a Muslim country that had just been bombed by the U.S.A, I wouldn't complain if it happened to me. But then, I wouldn't expect to be welcome there in the first place.


91 posted on 08/23/2006 8:58:45 PM PDT by ArmyTeach
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To: West Coast Conservative

Easy to fix...change the law and require profiling. These people want to kill me.


92 posted on 08/23/2006 9:01:14 PM PDT by blam
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To: West Coast Conservative

tuffsh*t


93 posted on 08/23/2006 9:03:36 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
The Synagogues of Satan are at it again.

No; that's the Sunnis.

These Shia are from the closely related Mosques of Moloch.

3,500 years, and still passing their children through the fire, hoping it will kill a Hebrew.

94 posted on 08/23/2006 10:24:45 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

There it is. The ACLU, CAIR join together to make it politically unacceptable to profile, and to make us unsafe. This is the ultimate battle - will we win and have profiling, or will they win? Unfortunately I am of the opinion that the people in charge will give in as soon as anyone says "racism" and that the left will win.
PC kills.


95 posted on 08/24/2006 5:52:32 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (The Leftist Marxist-Islamist Alliance: joining forces to destroy civilization.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

"Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport...."

Why, those bastards. What will they do next? Inhale oxygen throught their noses...or maybe even blink their eyes. Oh, the humanity.


99 posted on 08/24/2006 7:11:07 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Diogenesis
Yeah...but is this any reason to go into Lebanon?
100 posted on 08/24/2006 7:18:23 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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